Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common name of Caularchus mæandricus, of the family Gobiesocidæ, a fish found under rocks and in tide-pools on the Pacific coast of the United States.
- noun The sucking-fish or remora.
- noun A crustacean parasite of the sperm-whale: so called by whalemen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A sucker fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
suckerfish , orremora .
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Examples
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Rather, in the same slovenly suckfish fashion as any other.
Further Art Developments and The Oaf Begins To Suspect He's Been Sold A Bill of Goods. Sean Craven 2009
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Rather, in the same slovenly suckfish fashion as any other.
Archive 2009-06-14 Sean Craven 2009
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That's some big feckin' bait there you've got there, Cap'n Ahab me ol' flip-flop, but I think the only fishies you're gonna catch are blowfish and suckfish, with a few dolphin-friendly tunatards on the end of the line.
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Like a fish named the remora, or suckfish, which attaches itself to a whale and goes along for the exciting ride, the language maven latches on to the imposing subject and nibbles on the nourishing usages churned up in its wake.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Like a fish named the remora, or suckfish, which attaches itself to a whale and goes along for the exciting ride, the language maven latches on to the imposing subject and nibbles on the nourishing usages churned up in its wake.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Like a fish named the remora, or suckfish, which attaches itself to a whale and goes along for the exciting ride, the language maven latches on to the imposing subject and nibbles on the nourishing usages churned up in its wake.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Like a fish named the remora, or suckfish, which attaches itself to a whale and goes along for the exciting ride, the language maven latches on to the imposing subject and nibbles on the nourishing usages churned up in its wake.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Four months in, the room - with its slight decor, its greening live tanks in the back full of suckfish and uglyfish and lobsters, its daily specials written in careful, clear Chinese script on colorful sheets of construction paper hung on the walls - still had the feel of a skin-of-the-teeth operation.
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I'm not alleging a cabal between the NCAA, CBS, and their various corporate suckfish, except to the extent that they have conspired to make the tournament huge.
Slate Magazine 2009
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Wall Street Journal, the foremost think tanks, every major metropolitan newspaper, all broadcast media, academics, corporate suckfish, and howling political pundits of both Right and Left - at a time when 75 percent of Americans recognize The Lie and vehemently oppose such bailouts?
out of step 2008
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